Sachem High School

This page was last updated on July 16, 2004.

 

Athletic Nickname: Flaming Arrows

School Colors: Red, gold, and black

District Website: http://www.sachem.edu

Sachem Football Website: http://sachemfootball.com

 

Football Uniform History

Note: Much of the information contained here is based on my viewing of several old copies of Sachem High School’s Invictus yearbook at the Sachem Public Library.

 

Early 1960s

• The helmet is solid metallic gold.
• Home jersey is black with sewn-on tackle twill or satin old gold block numerals on the front and back and gold-red-gold UCLA shoulder loop striping.  The white away jersey has black numbers and black-gold-black UCLA shoulder loop striping.
• The pants worn with both jerseys were solid gold.

 

Circa 1963-

• The helmet is still solid metallic gold
• The black jersey, now short-sleeved, dispenses with shoulder and sleeve striping.  The gold numbers are now round NCAA gothic style and are on the front, back and upper sleeves.

 

Circa 1968-?

• Sachem’s football helmet is now black with a one-inch wide gold stripe running from front to back.
• White jersey has black rounded NCAA gothic style numerals on the front and back, a black contrasting crew neck collar, and a trio of narrow black stripes around each sleeve.
• The pants worn with the white jerseys are black and have a one-and-a-half inch wide old gold (or red) outseam stripe.  Gold web belts are worn with the pants.
• Socks are white with a trio of narrow black stripes around the calf.

 

1971

• The helmet is once again metallic old gold, but there is now a one-inch wide black stripe running from front to back. 
• Short-sleeved black home jerseys have sewn-on gold block numerals on the front, back, and upper sleeves, and contrasting gold rib-knit trim on the crew-neck collar and sleeve end cuffs. 
• Gold pants now have narrow black-white-black side striping.
• Home long hose are black with a trio of narrow gold stripes near the top.
• Sachem’s white away jerseys are similar to those of the early 1960s, but now have the word SACHEM in two-inch-high black full block letters above the jersey front numbers.

 

1973

• The gold helmet is replaced with a solid black helmet that has a metallic gold “S” on each side.
• The home jerseys are somewhat similar to those of 1971, but there are some changes.  I believe the numbers are now screen-printed instead of sewn-on, and the gold color is more of a deep yellow along the lines of Pantones 124, 1245, 125, 131, or 138.  The front and back numbers appear to be eight-inches high, and the TV numbers riding atop the shoulders are four-inches high.  The word “SACHEM” is in two-inch-high gold full block letters above the jersey-front numbers, and there are solid gold rib-knit cuffs.
• Pants are in a yellow ochre gold color with narrow black-white-black side striping.
• Black home socks have two white stripes flanking a single one-inch gold stripe with half-inch spacing between stripes.
• The white away jersey does away with the UCLA shoulder loop stripes in favor of narrow black-gold-black-gold-black striping on the sleeve-end rib-knit cuffs. The word “SACHEM” is in two-inch high black full block letters above the jersey-front numbers.

 

1975

• The helmet logo changes to a black S inside a Kansas City Chiefs-style white arrowhead.  The helmet shell remains black.
• Home and away jerseys this season are unchanged from 1973.
• Gold pants are replaced with white pants with narrow black-gold-black side striping.

 

1977

• The black jerseys undergo some changes.  The numbers and letters on the black home jerseys are now white with gold edging; the word “SACHEM” on the jersey front is now in three-inch high lettering, and sleeve-end rib-knit cuff striping is replaced by two narrow outer gold stripes flanking two narrow inner white stripes and hemmed sleeves.
• The white away jerseys now have three narrow gold stripes alternating with two wider black stripes around each sleeve, not unlike the 1970s away jerseys of the NFL’s St. Louis Cardinals.

 

1980-Present

• The black home jersey sleeve striping changes to the format of the 1977 away jerseys: three thin gold stripes flank two wider white stripes.
• The striping on the white pants becomes a bit wider.
• There would be no further major changes in Sachem’s football uniform design after 1980.  However, starting in the 1990s, the football team would occasionally wear for away games black pants with gold-white-black-white-gold side striping.

 

Sachem Football Helmet History

Years	Decal	Shell	Mask	Striping
Early 1960s	None	Metallic gold	Gray	None
?-1968-?	None	Black	Gray	Old Gold (one-inch)
?-1971-?	None	Metallic Gold	Gray	Black (one-inch)
?-1973-1974	Old Gold “S”	Black	Gray	None
1975-	Black S inside white Kansas City Chiefs-style arrowhead	Black	White	none

 

 

 

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